Blythe Danner made her stage debut in 1966, playing Laura in a Boston Theatre Company production of The Glass Menagerie. She went on to New York, eventually landing the role of Jill Tanner in Butterflies are Free — a role that would win her the Tony Award for that year, 1969. From there, Danner moved into parts in both television and film, playing in such films as The Great Santini, 1776, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Prince of Tides, and Meet the Parents.
On the small screen, Danner played Zelda Fitzgerald in The Last of the Belles, Eleanor Gehrig in A Love Affair: The Lou and Eleanor Gehrig Story, and the wife in Too Far to Go. She appeared in the recurring role of Will's mother, Marilyn Truman, in Will and Grace and in two Hallmark TV movies, Saint Maybe and Back When We Were Grownups. Her ongoing role as Izzy in Huff, earned her two Emmys for best supporting actress in a drama series.Born in Philadelphia, PA, on February 3, 1943, Danner was raised on Philadelphia's Main Line. She has received a number of Emmy and Tony award nominations, and in 2001 took on her first Broadway musical role as Phyllis in the revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies.
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